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Originally Posted by Mike B
I tried last night to export to MS Word format and then open that within Pages '08. Pages '08 failed to open the document and suggested it wasn't a valid file format.
As OmniO should write a valid MS Word file and Pages '08 should read a valid MS Word file has anyone noticed a problem with this kind of workflow? I ended up having to export to RTF as the intermediate format and it failed to maintain some of the formatting that I was after.
Any thoughts?
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My guess is that given that Word format is a proprietary binary format with costs attached, OO is doing what Nisus and Scrivener do, which is write an RTF file with a Word creator code and a .doc extension ... that is valid as far as Word is concerned but evidently not with Pages. Presumably, Pages sees the .doc extension and the creator, and looks for a binary file and chokes on the text file.
I haven't even bothered to try recently, but Nisus used to choke on .docs exported from Pages!
Mark